Your local food sounds great!....Especially if your traveling with a dog or two, or leaving "done up" food at home for the dog sitter. Cyndi _____ From: Joan Fox [mailto:campaignersgsd@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:47 PM To: rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx; caretti1@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Cooking for dogs , ideas, opinions Wow..... that's wonderful. I am sending my dogs to your house! Cyndi! I am going to look into the Natures Farmacy site. In the mean time. I have a local food here that is chilled in a refrigerator in the markets. It must be used in 5 days. Each pouch feeds a 50 to 70 lb. dog and contains: 9 oz. of beef 7 oz. of fresh chicken 3 oz. of liver 1 egg 3 oz. of ground oats 2 oz. of vegetables 18 vitamins and minerals. Hey.... and no chopping, cooking, or cleaning up! Joan --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Cyndi Flautt <caretti1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Cyndi Flautt <caretti1@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Cooking for dogs , ideas, opinions To: rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx Cc: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 8:33 PM Kathy, Thanks for an interesting thread..... I feed raw to 3 adults, and Eagle pack kibble plus raw to pups. The raw includes veggies that have been through a food processor, plus cooked sweet potatos, rice, or soaked oatmeal. I use the Natures Farmacy diet, which is on their website...Actually you can do their diet raw or cooked...whatever you feel comfortable with......my raw includes ground beef, ground venison, chicken, thighs,chicken backs, canned salmon, canned mackerel, sardines, boiled eggs (with the shell), cottage cheese, and organ meat...chicken hearts, liver, and gizzards. A homemade diet, or supplementing kibble with homemade extras is not difficult...For me it was like jumping off the diving board...For a long time, I wanted to "jump" but was afraid...The Nature's Farmacy diet gave me a guideline that I felt comfortable with... One of the questions I had for them was....how do you know your dog is getting a completely balance diet everyday? Their answer was....Is your own diet completely balanced everyday? (haha...no) The body can "survive" if things aren't completely balanced every day (like the dog food companies preach)....It's the overall picture that counts. Cyndi www.carettigsd.com -----Original Message----- From: showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy Tank Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:34 PM To: DPiagentin@xxxxxxx; freelist Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Cooking for dogs , ideas, opinions Hi Diane Thank you for your great response! Interesting, isn't it? I remember my family feeding puppies exclusively on cottage cheese, eggs, beef....the dogs had many ,many leftovers...and all lived robustly, and long lives. Maybe it's the food, maybe its too many vaccines? maybe...on and on...but our dogs health, as with our own is very heavily dependent of what they eat. I find it very interesting when I go to "the park" (my name for the gates of hell, lol) when there is coyote poo..it is full of berries of somekind and flowerets from the local flora. It is generally broken down and disappears within 48 hours. However the domestic dog poo, stays...and stays and stays...for WEEKS. Scary, seriously...preservatives? I don't know, but it is not only not broken down, it remains virtually unchanged . Kathy http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com Home of : CH. Elvaston's Nations Cup TC, 26 BOBs CH. Victory's Leviathan CH. Garter's E-Male of Fran-Jo Anne Isle WEBSITE PUP-DATED OCT 8 , 2008 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:15 PM, <DPiagentin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Kathy, > > I have been cooking for my dogs for 40 years, sometimes I may slack off > due to not enough time, but recentlyI had a problem with one of my > shepherds, with a can of Mighty dog, gave > ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. 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